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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHart Radio.

My guest today is Joel Berry.

Joel is managing editor of the Babylon Bee, an author, and the father of six.

Hi, Joel. So nice to have you on.

Oh, thank you for having me. I'm excited. Six kids. Six kids is a lot. Yeah, that's what everyone says.

You know, and this is nothing I envision for myself. I never, you know, anticipated being a father of six.

But it just kind of happened.

I married a great woman.

The kids kept coming.

It turns out having kids is really fun.

It's like having a bunch of cartoon characters in your house.

And once you kind of just embrace the chaos and the mess and the joy, it's pretty great.

It's funny because I lived in New York and I have three kids and that was a lot for New York.

It was like, wow, three kids.

That's so many.

But then you leave New York and it's like not even not even that interesting to have to be.

I thought I had a lot.

But then my kids went to a charter school that had a lot of Catholic families and I realized that I was kind of a rookie.

Like, you know, not eight, nine or ten is baseline for like a Midwestern Catholic family.

How did you get into humor writing? Did you just one day realize I'm funny. I like to write.

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